TwoTone is a free and open source web tool for generating music from data. https://twotone.io/ TwoTone empowers people all over the world to easily make data sonifications and data-driven music without writing a single line of code. Since its launch in 2019, a dedicated, diverse and growing community of users such as composers, sound designers, musicians, local newsrooms, publishers, data journalists, content creators, educators and researchers have used TwoTone as a tool for music creation, sonification, data storytelling and educational purposes. TwoTone has been featured in Financial Times, was a Finalist in the Gannett Foundation Award for Technical Innovation in the Service of Digital Journalism and was the featured tool for the Esch2022 European Capital of Culture project The Sound of Data: Science Meets Music.

We've been amazed at the response since our launch, now, Sonify needs your help to continue working on TwoTone to extend the reliability and usefulness of the tool for our rapidly growing community. Your support will help our team achieve these goals:

• Provide ongoing maintenance to ensure the app works properly including fixing reported issues from the community
• Update documentation and video tutorials as it relates to new features such as the recently added MIDI Out feature
• Update the main information site, and in-app communication tools to engage better with its community of existing and new users about early access to new versions of the tool
• Communicate to users about opportunities to contribute sonification and music tracks to podcasts and other audio projects in development

About TwoTone

• TwoTone is a Sonify project built with support from Google News Initiative and key advisor Alberto Cairo. The app was originally developed by Datavized Technologies.
• TwoTone is an introduction to data sonification and data-driven music. Data sonification adds the option of listening to data to amplify understanding.
• Data sonification is a technique that can augment visualization. Sounds add another dimension to data, expanding the possibilities for human-computer interaction
• TwoTone is a fun and intuitive way to make your own compositions from datasets without any prior musical or programming knowledge.
• Sign up for free and try it for yourself, getting started is easy - here's a few tutorials and a video walkthrough about the new MIDI Out feature in beta development.

We hope you enjoy experimenting with data sonification in TwoTone!
🙂 Sonify Team
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